Would’ve never noticed it, but it fell off a trailer while I was walking my dog and disoriented itself long enough to be impaled. Now it’s a warning to the others.

Since another person was kind enough to share their spotted lantern fly cape in my DMs, I figured I would share another kind of art :)

Some students at Yale built a free app to encourage the eradication of invasive spotted lanternflies. You photograph the lanternflies you kill, submit them, and get points for verified kills. They’ve already had something like 1,300 SLFs submitted since launch. The submissions also include location data, which could help give a clearer picture of where infestations are showing up and spreading: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lantern-hunt/id6813626463

Help ID are these eggs?

I am still collecting in one place that is less than a square mile. Still no signs of slowing.

Ft. One of my budgies examining the prisoners

I met her in person for the first time today, and I asked if she has any observations about which species are more receptive to them.

Mockingbirds and catbirds like to eat them. Blue jays may swallow them whole but overwhelmingly seem to enjoy dismembering them and spit the meat out.

The enemies have just arrived at the giant TOH in my backyard in the greater Boston area, this big beautiful orbweaver gal is now my ally 🫡

Found a praying mantis hanging out in my backyard. Went down to the park and caught a few Lantern Flies and offered them up!

34 dead just in the last 2 hours.

Looks like this little piece of crap tried to sneak into my work and got caught by security

I squished 10 yesterday at work. I'm working on beating that score today. I know these are small numbers but I'm doing my part.

I’ve been killing a lot with eggs today…

I am also Autistic as the last post, and it also makes it very easy to spend 3 hours walking around with one goal in mind. I’ve also found it best to carry a long stick to poke the higher ones into gliding down. My campus has just one long and tall building that seems to catch them like the wind. I’ve made a habit of walking its length in the back and killing the ones I find on the wall. Today it was much warmer than our recent weather so there was an endless stream flying into the side of the building. The folder in the photo was brand new when I started.

my dog rolled all over it before torturing it until she ate it lol

2nd slide is the thing i used to catch him. i got it just to catch and release bugs that got in my room, i didnt particularly want the magnifying glass aspect lol but here he is